CBS Quashes CNET Award for Dish's Ad-Skipping DVR

By

Keach Hagey

Jan. 14, 2013 4:39 p.m. ET

CNET disclosed Monday that it had originally picked Dish Network Corp.'s controversial ad-skipping device to receive its top award at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, before CNET's parent company, CBS Corp, forced it to reverse course.

The revelation came just hours after CNET senior writer Greg Sandoval quit in protest at the episode, taking to Twitter to say that he no longer had "confidence that CBS is committed to...